I so thoroughly enjoyed this trio of vignettes by A&E with BBC that I went out & bought all three, unprecedented for me! (Egad, I'm rhyming like the Pimpernel!:)
A long-time BBC/PBS aficionado, I've seen other Pimpernel versions but liked this trio the best. (One with Brit Leslie Howard was also good, but more formal/stylized & lacking modern film technology.)
I looked up Richard E. Grant & Elizabeth McGovern's other films, too, after enjoying these so well. In the mood for courage with style? The Pimpernel is the original James Bond, from 1792.
There's also a movie about the ahead-of-her-time female authoress, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, with a similar theme to Madame Marguerite/Lady Blakeny's traumatic childhood in those turbulent times of revolution in both America & Europe...so apparently her historical romantic action dramas had a touch of autobiography.
A long-time BBC/PBS aficionado, I've seen other Pimpernel versions but liked this trio the best. (One with Brit Leslie Howard was also good, but more formal/stylized & lacking modern film technology.)
I looked up Richard E. Grant & Elizabeth McGovern's other films, too, after enjoying these so well. In the mood for courage with style? The Pimpernel is the original James Bond, from 1792.
There's also a movie about the ahead-of-her-time female authoress, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, with a similar theme to Madame Marguerite/Lady Blakeny's traumatic childhood in those turbulent times of revolution in both America & Europe...so apparently her historical romantic action dramas had a touch of autobiography.